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September 19, 2012, Wednesday

A performance of Vincenzo Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi,” part of the Caramoor International Music Festival’s Bel Canto series, featured the opera as restored by Will Crutchfield, the festival’s director of opera.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. The saying is in French, the native language of the star soprano of this year's Santa Fe Opera, Natalie Dessay, and the rough translation (for presidents and other Francophobes) is that in spite of...

August 19, 2004, Thursday

''Bel Canto'' is a novel by Ann Patchett and an album by Renée Fleming that just won a Grammy Award for best classical vocal performance. The titles refer to a style of singing that's much praised but ever less practiced. So when two noted sopranos...

March 1, 2003, Saturday

It's a measure of the soprano Renée Fleming's clout at the Metropolitan Opera that when she asked the company to mount a production of ''Il Pirata,'' a Bellini rarity, especially for her, she got her wish. In these financially pinched times, the Met...